Building Oz

Cleaning things up

So the site in final beta form was released yesterday. The last build attacked various small issues and also allowed us to clean up some of the code and implement some things in a better fashion. Blog Aggregator For example, we know have an OPML feed

How are we doing?

So we finally have a product that we can show. Here is a screnshot: And here is the original com: So it is pretty close... A few last minute challenges We faced a couple of challenges: - URL Rewriting does not want to work with query string parameters.

speakTECH Flash Poster

The new OfficeZealot home page contains a Flash Poster. The speakTECH Flash Poster is a small but nifty Flash movie that displays a series of images in sequence with nice animations and a couple of other interesting features. Adding a Flash element to

URL Rewriting in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

The new task for the team was making the URLs from SharePoint go friendly; basically remove the annoying “/Page/” string from the URL. This has the added benefit that we’ll be able to keep our old URLs and keep Office Zealot rankings in search engines.

speakTECH – Community Server WebPart

Hello all, today we proudly announce that we have implemented on our future site our Community Server viewer web part. This Web part is capable of rendering different types of content given by Community server, and can be styled with CSS. After adding

Some of our challenges: CAML, properties...

It's been an exciting 4 days. We are finally starting to have every item come togeher to form the nice site this is supposed to be.In another post, we'll show you how the tag cloud from Community Server looks. This is how the Articles and News will look

Silverlight Viewer (almost) Ready To Go!

Today we finally integrated the Silverlight viewer into sharepoint. As I explained in my previous blog, the viewer has 6 different templates that the site administrator can work with. The different controls that will be available on this release will

SQL to SharePoint Migration tool

The most important part of the OfficeZealot site is really the content; therefore, one of the critical to quality elements is content migration. To do that, and considering that there is plenty of content to migrate, we developed a simple Windows app

Office Zealot Site - Silverlight Viewer

The new Office Zealot site will have a Silverlight Viewer application which will render the site content into Silverlight content, allowing the user to experience the site in a better way. As you might know, Silverlight is still in beta version and still

Storing Data in Sharepoint

Today we went through the process of analyzing the current site Database and structure in order to reproduce a similar structure in Sharepoint. We decided to start with the blogs and created the different content types that will be used for them: A couple

Day 1: Progress Update

At the end of day 1, we have made good progress in a few areas. Overall Style Implementation Sergio has been working hard to create the new Sharepoint site collection with the appropriate look and feel. We have created the site structure and applied some

Day 1: Some preliminary information

At this point it is impossible to determine how individual pieces of the puzzle will work, but we can easily foresee the end result. Before our first official progress report, it is important to provide a bit of info about the current application and